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Abbas Khan is a British doctor, trained in Britain, who for the past year has been the prisoner of another doctor trained in Britain — Bashar Assad.

Dr Khan went missing last November on what his family insists was a humanitarian mission into Syria . He was arrested by Assad’s forces two days before he was due to fly home to Streatham after working in a hospital in rebel-held Aleppo.

For five months his family thought he had been killed. The Foreign Office said it knew of his case but could do little because diplomatic relations with Damascus had been broken off.